OpenOffice

I've been using it since October, and haven't looked back.

The only annoying thing is that you can't view two pages side-by-side on OpenOffice Writer, like you can in MSWord. It makes having a widescreen monitor a bit of a waste.
 
Ive been using it for around a year on my desktop with office 2007 ultimate on my laptop, I still prefer MS but for free you cant complain
 
I use it on my laptop, very well featured, and its amazing for a product that is free, but whenever Im at work I use MS Office which I prefer as its formatting isn't quite so nice and at the risk of starting a flame war, the fonts are just so damn ugly.
Im too used to MS eye candy I spose
 
Very aware of it. :D I keep checking FileHippo for the latest version.

Known about it for perhaps 2-3 years now and used it for a Uni project. Don't have it installed atm since I quite like Office 2007 and I can make PDFs that way.

You are right that it is a good alternative and available for a damned good price. :p
 
Been using it for over a year at home, i think it's perfect for occasional home use but in the office i definitely prefer MS Office, especially the 2007 version.

I always recommend it for for cheap home PC builds.
 
Greenlizard0 said:
I carry it on a portable loo everywhere I go - I can't stand MS new version of Office.
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Portable loo?
Is that 32 or 64 bit?
Does the cache need flushing regularly?


I use MS Office, but I test my documents on OpenOffice before I send them out.
 
I use OO.o on all my systems. OO.o for Windows, OO.o on Ubuntu Linux, and NeoOffice on Mac OS X. It's quite handy. I recommend it to folks at work who bought computers that only came with MS Works who need a basic word processor/spreadsheet/presentation suite. :)

As usual, I like being able to use the same program on all my systems.
 
It has it's quirks, can turn some MS formatted docs into perfect mess, some options are in most unintuitive places ever (get MS Office user to find the option of settin a page to landscape in Open Office and watch them cry) but considering it's free, it's not bad. Good alternative to Office 97, 2000 as well. It's in dark ages compared to Office 2007 though...
 
I've been using OO at home for a while now - once I got used to it I haven't missed not having MS Office.
 
Pound for £ it cannot be beaten.:D

Given it is free and microsoft office is £200 or so it would have to make me an awful lot more productive to get me to shell out for a copy. If however the boss pays I'd use microsoft
 
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